A history of reading
By: by Alberto Manguel.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780140166545
Subjects: Books and reading -- History; Reading -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: The Last Page; title: 3
label: The Last Page; label: Acts of Reading; title: 27
label: Reading Shadows; title: 41
label: The Silent Readers; title: 55
label: The Book of Memory; title: 67
label: Learning to Read; title: 85
label: The Missing First Page; title: 95
label: Picture Reading; title: 109
label: Being Read To; title: 125
label: The Shape of the Book; title: 149
label: Private Reading; title: 163
label: Metaphors of Reading; label: Powers of the Reader; title: 177
label: Beginnings; title: 187
label: Ordainers of the Universe; title: 201
label: Reading the Future; title: 213
label: The Symbolic Reader; title: 225
label: Reading within Walls; title: 237
label: Stealing Books; title: 247
label: The Author as Reader; title: 261
label: The Translator as Reader; title: 279
label: Forbidden Reading; title: 291
label: The Book Fool; label: Endpaper Pages; title: 309
label: Endpaper Pages; title: 321
label: Notes; title: 361
label: Index